it's been more valuable to christie. his leadership during sandy lifted his poll numbers to stats fearic heights by maintaining an alliance with obama, it's kept his numbers there. sandy is what brought christie and obama together. it's kept the white house out of the new jersey election and has christie on course to win a huge victory on tuesday. what remains to be seen is whether it will come back to haunt democrats three years from now. to talk about this, we have former virginia congressman and now reigning up against the clock champion republican tom davis. reporter dave weigel is with us and former texas congressman democrat martin frost. now also getting a more formal introduction following his up against the clock appearance, governor whitman, a resident new jersey politician on the panel, i wonder if you could talk about what in the estate of new jersey, we think of this as a blue state. you won there in two close elections in the 1990s, now, chris christie will probably win this by more than 20 points on tuesda